ShaneFalco
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The Chiefs can do it because they are actually paying Mahomes big money AFTER the CBA is signed. Combining 4th and 5th year of Daks professional earnings he was actually paid more than Mahomes.
The problem has always been that we are continually chase our tails paying Dead Cap. Dak's years were wasted .....because we paid Romo $60 in Dead Cap for the years 2016-2018.
We've been restructuring since. There are some who look to the past and say "we've always found the money"....well at the time we did and pay later, unfortunately it's never worked.
The question about Dak isnt really about him and his abilities, it's about being able to build a team....we ahve to write off 2022/23 rather than making the same mistakes again and again.
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KC was already built to win before Mahomes got there. They were consistently going to the playoffs with Smith. Andy realize just like Shanahan with Plummer that he needed an “elite” QB to get over the hump. The hump being other “elite” QBs in the playoffs. Shanahan kept meeting Peyton, Brady and Ben in the playoffs with disastrous results usually. Plummer won some games but couldn’t get over each “elite” hill as the years went by.
Tak is not “elite”. He’s a Smith. Or a Plummer.